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omg I remember this! I think it was an ask game about ongoing wips and at the time I was working on two non-seven years christian/toto projects! one was a 2022 long fic about them getting together after the 2021 season (shit ton of angst) and the other was a fic that i actually still think about from time to time that’s kinda magical realism adjacent. the idea was that there are two parallel timelines, one where christian is married to geri (normal life) and one where christian is married to toto (not seven years) and the two christian’s somehow swap lives and he has to deal with his new reality of a) suddenly not being married to toto anymore and b) suddenly being married to toto. i kinda love the idea cause there’s so much potential for angst and hurt and comfort!!!! in the real life timeline, toto is married to susie and christian finds himself suddenly yearning for his husband from afar, and in the other timeline he’s Christian Horner, red bull team principal and Straight Man, and he suddenly has to navigate being married to his greatest rival (who turns out to be…. kinda great actually). i just think it’s so fun, plus think about the moment when the two christian’s finally switch back!

wait hello can you remind me? 👀 feel like i’ve been too locked in on seven years, no thoughts aside from that

fun little side quest tho cause when he goes to look for an old headshot of toto in toto’s office at home, he accidentally opens pandora’s box - he finds one million old photos that toto just always put in that one cupboard and never looked at again. he sits on the floor in front of that cabinet for literal hours looking through all of them and that’s where toto finds him, like “there you are, i’ve been looking everywhere for you— what are you doing????” at that point christian has already pocketed minimum thirty old photos of toto in his 20s

at first this ask really made me giggle cause the thought of either christian or toto watching heated rivalry is just like……….. so funny to me. but i think you actually have a point anon, it would hit deeper for them cause they can relate so much to the hiding and sneaking around and the terror of being found out. i think maybe they’d actually really love and support it as representation for young athletes in sports. i don’t think they’d necessarily read the books but they would totally watch the whole thing back to front when they first hear about it after it goes viral, maybe lots of people actually alert them to it ala “you should really watch this, wasn’t this kinda sorta your story”